Robot Zombie Cat saves Halloween
I had these grand plans of completing my levitating baby head, I even started about a month ago, but even with such an early start, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. Enter Robot Zombie Cat!
Year: 2009
How-To: Yoshi and Mario Toddler Costumes
Instructables user craineum made these really incredible Yoshi and Mario costumes for his toddlers. You may remember him from last year’s Mega Man costume. Those are lucky kids! I remember one year being Tweety Bird, and my mom made a similarly large mascot-style piece of headgear. Who needs peripheral vision when you’ve got candy? More: […]
Hacking the Force Trainer
Zibri did some investigative hacking with the Force Trainer (brainwave controlled toy) and posted a basic interface schematic using a MAX3233 to interface with his PC via serial. It turns out the EEG headset is sending out data as ASCII characters @ 57600 baud – should make for some quick and easy hacking! Time to […]
Vintage Thread Bird Nests
Remember the fantastic vintage spool advent calendar from Cathe at Just Something I Made a couple of weeks ago? She’s back to share how she used the discarded thread from the spools to make a collection of colorful bird nests!
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You know how, on those reality romance shows, every week, they say: “Get ready for the most exciting rose ceremony, ever!” Yeah, we don’t know anything about that either, but that’s what we hear they say. Anyhoo… we probably sound the same, heralding each issue of MAKE as the best, most exciting issue EVER! But […]
Graffiti marker disguised as cigarette
I recently ordered some refillable paint pens from Art Primo, and this was in the box as a freebie. It’s the exact size, shape, and color as a cigarette, and among a dozen real cigarettes in a pack it’d likely pass any search completely unnoticed. It took me a minute to figure out its nefarious purpose: If you get caught in the vicinity of a fresh tag, after all, it’s best not to be found with a marker on your person. They’re manufactured by Germany’s On The Run, but you won’t find them on their website. The one I got was gold; the silver ones below were photographed by Flickr user $30,000.
How-To: Compressed air system for haunt props
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
